On hating Trump

 A lot of people hate Barack Obama.  Most of them hate him because he is black.  They are indignant that someone who they think should aspire to no more than being a houseboy should actually preside over the White House.  And, of course, some hate him because he is a Democrat.  All that hatred comes from people who are enraged when someone who does not conform to their bigotry exercises equality and rises to a position of authority.

A few people may hate Trump for those reasons.  But the vast majority of people hate Trump because he is a vile, despicable person who represents the execrable, malignant qualities that our country was formed to avoid.  Trump corrupts our nation.   He dishonors the qualities of liberty, equality, and justice around which our nation is constituted.  In a word, he is anti-American.  

His spoken words and his tweets have reduced American politics to the mindless malice of a juvenile playground dispute.  There is nothing aspiring and constructive that emanates from his mind.   By October of this year, the Washington Post fact checker had recorded that Trump had uttered 13,345 lies while in office.  People who are minimally alert and discerning know that nothing stated by Trump and members of his administration can be believed or trusted.  The nation is not split on the lines of political preferences.  It is split along the lines of those who want human decency, integrity, and competence, and those who don't.

People hate Trump because he embodies all that contaminates and degrades the  aspirations of our better angels.  People hate what Trump stands for.

To hate Trump is to simply want what is better for the human race.  He puts his vicious malice out there for all to see, and people of decency denounce and reject it.  But their disapproval has a much deeper significance for the nation and the human race.  

Those who see what Trump represents include those who voted for him.  Like it or not, that is what America has become.  And next year we will decide if we want it to stay that way.